Beauty World MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the

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(DTL) in

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. Located along Upper Bukit Timah Road, this station took its name from the historic Beauty World, an amusement park and market that once stood in the vicinity. Beauty World station primarily serves the residential estates along Jalan Jurong Kechil and Toh Yi Drive, as well as Beauty World Centre, Beauty World Plaza and Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. It is also within walking distances to

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, Bukit Timah market & food centre, Bukit Timah Community Club, Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple and Bee Low See Temple. The section of tracks between this station and Hillview MRT station is the longest between any two MRT stations on the Downtown Line till 2025. There are basic structural provisions for a future station (also known as a "box station") along this section of tracks near Hume Avenue. Hume MRT station was confirmed on 7 March 2019 and is to be operational by 2025.

History

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The station was first announced in July 2008 when the DTL2 stations were announced. Contract 916 for the design and construction of Beauty World station and associated tunnels was awarded to McConnell Dowell S.E.A. Pte Ltd on 25 March 2009 at a contract sum of . Tunnelling works began on 8 June 2011. Two

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s — which were named

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and

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, after the Greek goddesses by students of the nearby Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School — tunnelled the stretch from Beauty World to King Albert Park.

Station details

Etymology

The original name for "Beauty World" referred to an amusement park in the area. At that time, amusement parks were called "worlds": the others included Gay World,

Great World The Great World () is an amusement arcade and entertainment complex located in Shanghai, China. Built in 1917 on the corner of Avenue Edward VII (now Yan'an Road) and Yu Ya Ching Road (now Middle Xizang Road), it was the first and for a long time ...

(which

Great World City Great World, formerly known as Great World City, is a mixed-used development consisting of a 6-storey shopping mall, two 18-storey office towers and a 35-storey serviced apartment tower in the Central Area of Singapore. Located between Kim Seng ...

now occupies), and

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. The amusement park was subsequently converted to a market after the end of

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, and called Beauty World Market. However, fire hazards led to the subsequent demolition of the park in the 1980s. The station was also named after the Beauty World Centre. Other names such as Anak Bukit and Seventh Mile were considered before the name Beauty World was selected.

Art in Transit

"Asemic Lines" by Boedi Widjaja is an artwork that presents the multi-cultural mix of language and invites viewers' aesthetic intuition to 'hover' between reading and looking.

Exits

*A:

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, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World Plaza, Beauty World Centre, Church of Singapore, Goh & Goh Building, UOB Centre & wheelchair accessible *B: Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple, Dimensions International College (Bukit Timah Campus), Kilat Centre, JK Building, Sweebi House & wheelchair accessible *C: Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, Bukit Timah Plaza, Bukit Timah CC, Glory Presbyterian Church,

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& wheelchair accessible, The Reserve Residences.

References

External links

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SBS official website
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